Kemp Battle
Kemp Battle is a principal in Tucker Capital Corp., an investment banking firm which provides strategic advisory services to branded media companies and Non-Profits.

Stan Blum
Stan Blum is the Research Information Manager at the California Academy of Sciences and a specialist in biodiversity informatics.

Rick Brusca
Rick Brusca is an invertebrate biodiversicist who has worked in the fields of marine and freshwater systematics and biogeography since 1970; he is author of the largest selling college text on invertebrate zoology.

Gonzalo Castro
Ornithologist; The World Bank, Biodiversity Environment Department

Daniel M. Cohen
Daniel M. Cohen; Ph.D. Stanford, 1958; research interests: ichthyology, deep-sea biology; retired from National Marine Fisheries Service and Natural History Museum L.A. County.

Joel Cracraft
Ornithologist; Curator-in-Charge, Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History

Jim Croft
Web guru; Director, Botanic Information at the Australian National Botanic Gardens

Gustavo B. Fonseca
Conservation International –Vice President and Executive Director Center for Applied Biodiversity Science

Adrian Forsyth
Adrian Forsyth, tropical ecologist, is Senior Biodiversity Scientist at the W Alton Jones Foundation and president of the Amazon Conservation Association.

Rodrigo Gamez
Rodrigo Gámez is a founding member, Director and President of the Board of Costa Rica's National Biodiversity Institute (INBio)

Paul Hawken
Paul Hawken is a writer whose work focuses on the living and human systems (The Ecology of Commerce, and Natural Capitalism).

David Hillis
David Hillis’ interests are in biodiversity, molecular evolution, and the phylogeny of life; Director of the School of Biological Sciences, University of Texas.

Lee Su-See
Mycologist studying fungal pathogens with the Forest Research Institute Malaysia

David Maddison
Department of Entomology, University of Arizona; Tree of Life Web Developer

Ron McGinley
Ron McGinley is a Research Entomologist at the Smithsonian Institution whose primary interests are the biology and systematics of bees (over 25,000 species worldwide), collection management and general museum administration.

Russell Mittermeier
President, Conservation International, Washington, D.C.

Kenneth Nealson
Ken Nealson is an environmental microbiologist heading up the Center for Life Detection at JPL/Caltech.

Nana Naisbitt
Nana Naisbitt is a writer and co-author High Tech High Touch and took notes at the Meeting.

A. Townsend Peterson
A. Townsend Peterson, Curator of Ornithology in the University of Kansas Natural History Museum, co-directs the assembly of The Species Analyst, an international cooperative effort to link biodiversity information sources via the Internet.

Ghillean Prance
Ghillean Prance is MacBride Professor at the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Hawaii and Scientific Director of the Eden Project in Cornwall, England.

Richard Pyle
Richard Pyle's primary interests are using advanced diving technology to explore deep coral-reef environments, and developing database systems for storage and analysis of systematic and biogeographic information.

Evert I. Schlinger
Evert Schlinger is Professor Emeritus, Entomological Sciences, University of California, Berkeley.

Douglas Segal-Causey
Program Director: Biotics Survey Inventory Program, National Science Foundation.

Jorge Soberon
Jorge Soberon is Executive Secretary of the Mexican Commission on Biodiversity. Trained as a mathematical ecologist he has been working in projects related to the inventory of Mexican biodiversity and the creation of the information systems needed to the management of the data.

Dominique Trudeau
Research Scientist at the University of California-Berkeley in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology.

David Western
David Western is a conservationist with the Wildlife Conservation Society and Chairman, African Conservation Centre.

All Species Host Committee

Stewart Brand
Stewart Brand is co-founder of The Long Now Foundation, Global Business Network, The WELL, and Whole Earth Catalog; author of The Clock of the Long Now, How Buildings Learn, and The Media Lab.

Terry Erwin
Terry Erwin is an entomologist at the Smithsonian Institution and has worked for the past 20 years on tropical forest biodiversity, particularly that of the forest canopy, and is a beetle taxonomist.

Terry Gosliner
Terry Gosliner, Provost, California Academy of Sciences. Nudibranch systematist.

David Kavanaugh
David Kavanaugh, Senior Curator of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences.

Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly is Editor-at-Large for Wired magazine and author of Out of Control–the New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World.

John McCosker
John McCosker, Senior Scientist at the California Academy of Sciences, is a systematic ichthyologist who specializes in eastern Pacific and coral reef communities, with particular interest in the evolution of marine eels.

Ryan Phelan
Ryan Phelan is an entrepreneur in the for-profit Internet world as well as with various non-profits in healthcare and in philanthropy.

Peter Warshall
Peter Warshall is the editor of Whole Earth magazine, an ecologist and a water and wildlife resources consultant.